Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
21 Haringey Staff are paid over £100,00 PA , Highest in London
Surprised no response to Haringey Independents report on Haringey Council. Having the Highest number of Staff being paid over a £100,000 per year
Report originated by Tax Payers Alliance Report
Especially as Rate Payers are aware Services are being reduced
Must be coming from All the New Rate Payers that coming online. From all the New builds being built in the Borough
Plus All the Large properties being divided into flats. And Houses into rooms
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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I had a look at last year’s list on the Haringey website (all local authorities are required to publish a list of all posts earning over £50k) as the one for the current year isn’t due out for a few more days. Last year they had 18 posts earning £100k or more.
I think it’s highly unlikely that they engaged an extra 13 people at this salary range in the past 12 months so my suspicion is that these are boosted by consultant salaries paid for one off pieces of work. Whether you think this is right or wrong is of course a matter for debate but it shows how the TPL play fairly fast and lose with data.
There is no requirement to publish names - it up to the individual what personal details are published. Again this makes me wonder if all the “undisclosed” are just blanks on the data sheet as consultants wouldn’t have a job title and the TPL found it better suited to their aims to fill them with a rather sinister sounding “undisclosed” rather than just leaving them blank.
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Permalink Reply by Bob Ruggles on
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According to Independent report, Haringey stated some was Education heads
Bigger worry is the number of Ward Councillors for other Borough's that are employed by Haringey
Who spend majority of time of council issues. And not to the Rate Payers covering their Wages
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Permalink Reply by PeterPiper on
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It may not be a requirement to publish names, but surely the post/position should be disclosed for transparency purposes. Similarly, if it's a consultant, & the area of their expertise. No?
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I have no idea, I didn’t write the Localism Act
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I’ve looked at the information Haringey are required to publish on their website and it does contain all the data you mention. It looks like the TPA haven’t actually done their research very well.
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Permalink Reply by Neil on
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Haringey is back in the national newspapers for the wrong reasons again.
It is hypocrisy from the left wing Labour faction that runs the council to allow an elite of staff at the top to be paid well in excess of what is necessary. These staff also get generous pensions, early retirement options, short working hour options and good holidays. They also don't lose their jobs when their departments are ranked poorly in UK league tables. League tables show that Tory councils are far more efficient and most of them don't pay over the top salaries.
These head of departments replicate what the same heads in 32 other London boroughs do. There are 117 other borough councils in the UK and they all follow the same guidelines. It is not a difficult or unsupported role.
The Left has also put council tax up knowing that most of the people in the poorer, non white, Tottenham constituency will struggle to pay it from their lower incomes. The working class are made to pay for the exorbitant wages of the middle class, Haringey council workers.
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Biggest joke is Civic Centre
With large numbers of Staff and vehicles that block resident Bays, even though it has a large car park
Yet Services are reduced for Rate Payers yet Civic Centre Staffing seems to grow
Haringey has some of the Richest and Poorest within its Borough
Can not believe the number of Haringey Residents that eat Out or have daily Fast Food Deliveries
Often hear motor bike deliveries in early Hours of morning. Joys of having a speed bump outside my house
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Permalink Reply by Dan on
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I personally have no issue with this if jobs are done well. They should be paid even more if they are delivering great value. I wonder how these staff are held to account.
Do we have any indication of what the accountability and performance pay agreements are for these roles? Maybe they are paid well, because they performed well against what was expected of them?
If not performance related, then aside from the restrictive governance - the council is 100% dependent on an excellent recruitment process in getting the right people for the right price. That is not easy. I'd imagine that process is led by consultants, who are recruited by...?
I would imagine in a council, it would be fairly straightforward to have great performance metrics to evaluate a good job. Accountability is pretty rigorous in councils with quite specific job roles and a responsibility to the public.
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Haringey is pay policy statement is available using the link below
https://www.haringey.gov.uk/local-democracy/performance-and-finance...
A fairly common individual performance assessment scheme is carried out by most local authorities where your performance is assessed annually by your immediate manager against a range of criteria set for you 12 months before, a score is given which determines if your pay advances up the pay scale (or not) and it is then reviewed by the next person up the managerial line to try and make sure managers are being consistent in their approach. It seemed to work in my previous employment (not with Haringey) for both me as a manager and as someone who was managed and some people were denied an annual increase due to performance not being up to standard
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Great! Then Haringey should be rocking! But it doesn't seem to be.
If everyone is hitting their goals, then the goals are wrong.
The complete lack of performance data is a massive issue in many organisations. What does success look like? I cannot find any measurable goals anywhere in here. Maybe I'm wrong.
This reads to me like a subjective process. Which is asking for trouble.
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You can't just genearkliese though.
I am certainly NOT a defender of Haringey Council...
There are loads of lower level staff that are busting thier as..es to do their work within almost impossible constraints. Many are now doing the same job with much less resources and with increasing levels of resident demands and expectations.
But with the high levels of deprivation that we have in the east of the Borough, the legacy of past corruption, the ongoing political ineptitude and especially the huge reduction in central government resources/funding by the ideologically moitivated extreme rightwing (yes, extreme) over the years, it will be hard to really make much progress.
We will also see what comes out of the present crisis. Looking at how the BoJo government is handling things, despite what BoJo says, I, very cynically, doubt we will get more than crumbs.
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